- "Swift boating" Iraq Whistleblowers. The same
gaggle of GOP right-wing fake, phony, and fraudulent "veterans"
who savaged John Kerry, John McCain, Special Forces Lt. Col. Dan Marvin http://www.expendableelite.com/lawsuit1/
60 Minutes and others are now taking on Iraqi War veterans who have
blown the whistle on U.S. torture of prisoners in Iraq. The latest victim
of these self-appointed vigilantes is Sgt. Frank G. Ford, the 32-year veteran
of military counter-intelligence and presidential security detail operations
who was unceremoniously removed from Iraq strapped to a gurney after he
cited several cases of prisoner abuse in Iraq. His contention is supported
by fellow 223rd Military Intelligence Battalion veteran Dave DeBatto.
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- Enter a group called VeriSeal, a murky McLean, Virginia-based
organization tied to an equally murky contractor advertising counter-terrorism/protection,
intelligence, investigations, and security services.
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- VeriSeal claims that Ford was not entitled to wear a
SEAL insignia even though Ford said he was a Navy corpsman assigned to
a discontinued SEAL training program in the 1980s. Navy corpsmen are similarly
assigned to Marine Corps combat units. Nevertheless, VeriSeal's accusations
were quickly picked up, a la the 60 Minutes Texas Air National Guard "scanned"
original documents story and the Swift Boat vets claims, by right wing
web sites like FreeRepublic.com, which proceeded to trash Ford in the same
manner they attacked Dan Rather and John Kerry.
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- VeriSeal's web site has a list of individuals it claims
have wrongfully cited or have had referenced their US Navy SEAL veterans'
status. Cleverly, the site mixes actual frauds
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- with those whose whistleblower activities earn them the
wrath of the organization, which apparently claims to have some sort of
official access to Department of Defense military records (Naval Special
Warfare Command and Naval Special Warfare Archives), access that enables
it to question information contained in official discharge papers (DD-214s).
The Naval Special Warfare Command in Coronado, California, however, does
not endorse the activities of operations like VeriSeal.
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- The site also attacks Navy reserve Captain O.C. Smith,
someone who never claimed to be a Navy SEAL but was a reserve Navy pathologist
whose civilian job as Shelby County Medical Examiner put him front and
center in two very suspicious deaths: the so-called "suicide"
of top Harvard virologist Dr. Don C. Wiley and the murder of Tennessee
driver's license examiner Katherine Smith. Dr. Smith has been the victim
of a coordinated discrediting campaign because of his intimate knowledge
about both suspicious deaths -- murders likely connected to criminal conspiracies
involving the anthrax attacks and 911, respectively. VeriSeal also attacks
former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Armitage,
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- http://sec-global.com/services/ctp/vsg/news/021001.html
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- Colin Powell's fellow Iraq War skeptic. The web site
claims that Armitage "lied" about his own SEAL background, a
contention that Armitage denies. A Wall Street Journal article features
retired Navy Commander Paul Galanti runs a site similar to VeriSeal. Galanti
was a leader of the so-called "Swift Boat Veterans" who questioned
John Kerry's Vietnam service and the chair of John McCain's 2000 presidential
campaign in Virginia.
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- A perusal of the principals of the VeriSeal web site
and its associated firm points to a group made up of war book authors and
TV and movie script writers who are selling their various "services"
to the Federal government. VeriSeal is said to be a "service"
of Security Enterprise Consultants as a "no cost public service."
VeriSeal's principals are listed as Charles Pfarrer, author of "Warrior
Soul; The Memoir of a Navy SEAL" and Hollywood screenwriter identified
with "The Jackal," (Bruce Willis, Richard Gere) "Navy SEAL,"
(Charlie Sheen, Bill Paxton) and "Darkman;" Marvel comic book
hero movie starring Liam Neeson) and Steve Waterman, author of "Just
a Sailor: A Navy Diver's Story of Photography, Salvage, and Combat."
VeriSeal is run by retired Senior Chief Kent Dillingham who served in Afghanistan
and Iraq.
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- VeriSeal's corporate "sponsor," Security Enterprise
Consultants, claims it is a "'post-service only' organization comprised
exclusively of veteran government and military personnel with ten or more
years of operational experience." It lists a partner called Special
Ops Associates, Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, FL that provides special security
services in Afghanistan. The Fort Lauderdale firm also runs www.maritimesecurity.org.
Although its VeriSeal crew is heavily laden with book authors and TV and
movie script writers, the company maintains a "No Media" policy
applying to "printed press, television, and motion picture projects."
Its web site also has a "special access" required page. http://sec-global.com/secnet.html
One of its advertised offerings is "repatriation services."
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